Over the past 48 hours, r/gaming has participated in the Reddit-wide blackout in protest of the API pricing changes Reddit is planning to roll out. Over those 48 hours, the behaviour of the Reddit admins has been disappointing. Admin has been stepping in and allegedly removing moderators and forcing closed subreddits open, to keep their revenue coming in, and the Reddit CEO has dismissed the Redditor’s concerns, saying it will all blow over.
The mod team here has considered keeping the subreddit private to continue the protest, but we said we would close down for 48 hours and we did, therefore we need to go public to hear your comments and discussion points. We as moderators are internally discussing further actions amongst ourselves, however we will be influenced if there is a strong message coming from the sub.
I am hoping subs go indefinite or stop moderation altogether, which might do more than just going dark. Seems like not much has changed with the 48 hour protest
A moderation strike sounds like a brilliant idea.
I’ve seen a few reports if the subreddit is big enough, Reddit is actually removing moderators and adding new ones. So a moderation strike wouldn’t last particularly long, unless they keep moderating but do some background sabotage… Make the worst possible post a sticky instead of removing it, ignore reports, and so on.
That being said, I’m still in the camp that believes mods should simply lock new submissions, add a sticky with a link to a Lemmy community, and then ignore Reddit.
Oh yea I saw one where they removed the head moderator and made the sub public again. Dont remember the sub but there was a post about it here
I think that was r/AdviceAnimals
That sound right!
Could have sworn I read that only one mod wanted to go dark, and that particular mod was inactive for over a year. The other moderators did not want to participate in the blackout. Not really a cut and dry situation in this context.
Weird, I heard the opposite-- that only one wanted to stay open, and the others left, leaving the one to take over. I don’t know for sure, but just wanted to share that somehow completely flipped versions are circulating. Lol. I wish they deleted all the content and threads first. Probably not possible, but I can dream…👹